What was your reaction to this speech and what do you view as sort of your job in the Senate to try to check what Trump is doing? More than a month into the biggest military buildup since the war in Afghanistan, this unilaterally declared war by Donald Trump. And now he's coming to the American people. The first time he has actually made statements. Now, he's made tons of statements, but he's contradicted himself multiple times about why we got in there. (08:12–08:21)
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Asserts that the military buildup is the largest since the Afghanistan war and was unilaterally declared by Trump.
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